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02-23-2003, 10:38 AM
INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 21, 2003) -- In the market for a pass-rusher with the kind of speed that would make some receivers envious?
How about a hulking tackle that can swallow up blockers two at a time and deny running backs even the tiniest sliver of daylight?
Or perhaps you're looking for someone with that rare combination of cat-like quickness and bear-like power to anchor your defensive front?
If you're drafting for an NFL team and any of the above meets your primary needs, then this is your lucky year. Again, for the third year in a row, quality defensive linemen -- of various shapes, sizes, and playing styles -- reign supreme among the college prospects available for April's draft. In fact, this could very well end up being the best defensive line class of all.
"It's extremely deep," Buffalo Bills general manager Tom Donahoe, who has overseen many NFL drafts, said of the group of ends and tackles gathered at the National Scouting Combine. "In the years that we've been doing this, this is one of the deeper, numbers-wise, for defensive linemen that we've seen."
MORE (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/6203188)
How about a hulking tackle that can swallow up blockers two at a time and deny running backs even the tiniest sliver of daylight?
Or perhaps you're looking for someone with that rare combination of cat-like quickness and bear-like power to anchor your defensive front?
If you're drafting for an NFL team and any of the above meets your primary needs, then this is your lucky year. Again, for the third year in a row, quality defensive linemen -- of various shapes, sizes, and playing styles -- reign supreme among the college prospects available for April's draft. In fact, this could very well end up being the best defensive line class of all.
"It's extremely deep," Buffalo Bills general manager Tom Donahoe, who has overseen many NFL drafts, said of the group of ends and tackles gathered at the National Scouting Combine. "In the years that we've been doing this, this is one of the deeper, numbers-wise, for defensive linemen that we've seen."
MORE (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/6203188)